Seamus Perry

2006

• ‘Coleridge and the inverted comma’: talk delivered to the Annual Graduate Conference, University of Oxford, June 2006.
• ‘Coleridge’s Page’: lecture delivered at the Coleridge Conference, Cannington, July 2006.
• ‘Tennyson and Art’: invited lecture delivered at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Durham, October 2006.

2005

• ‘Negative Potential: Wordsworth, Hardy, Larkin’: paper delivered to the research seminar, Department of English, University of Durham, March 2005.

2004

• ‘Coleridge and the Unpoetic’: invited lecture delivered at the Coleridge Conference, Cannington, July 2004.
• ‘T.S. Eliot’s Coleridge’: invited paper delivered at the ‘Coleridge’s Afterlives’ Conference, Clare College, Cambridge, July 2004.
• ‘Wordsworth and Habit’: plenary lecture delivered at the Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, August 2004.

2003

• 'Empson's Coleridges': paper delivered at the conference 'Versions of Empson: Criticism, Politics and Literary Form', University of Sheffield, July, 2003.

2002

• 'Tennyson Again': the Annual Lecture of the Tennyson Society, Lincoln, June 2002.
• 'Wordsworth's Heroics': plenary lecture delivered at the Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, August 2002.

2001

• 'The World as Friend: Coleridge and Modern Consolation': invited paper delivered at the 'Coleridge, Friendship and the Origins of Modernity' conference, at the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature, University of Warwick, February 2001.
• 'Victoria's Laureates: Two Voices': paper delivered at 'Victoria's Laureate: the International Tennyson Conference', Lincoln, July 2001.
• 'Wordsworth and Tennyson': invited paper delivered at the Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, August 2001.
• 'Puny is Good': invited response to a panel on 'Joseph Johnson and his Circle', organised by the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association, M.L.A. Convention, New Orleans, December 2001.

2000

• 'Autonomy and Reference in Criticism': invited paper delivered at 'New Beginnings: Launching the Northern Romanticist Network', University of St. Andrews, May 2000.
• 'T.S. Eliot and Coleridge the Modernist': plenary lecture delivered at the Coleridge Conference, Cannington, July 2000.
• 'Parnassus and Conventicle: Coleridge and Allegory, Bunyan and others': plenary lecture delivered at the Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, August 2000.

1999

• 'Poetry and Inevitability: Coleridge and Wordsworth': invited paper delivered at the Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, August 1999.

1998

• 'Against Ideology': invited paper delivered at conference, 'After Romantic Ideology: New Approaches to the History of Romantic Ideas', Corpus Christi College, Oxford, April 1998.
• 'Kubla Khan and the Ethics of Imagining': paper delivered at the Coleridge Summer Conference, Cannington, July 1998.
• 'Coleridge on Imagination, Again': plenary lecture delivered at the Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, August 1998.
• 'A Sense of Not Ending: Disappointment and Inconclusiveness in Lyrical Ballads (1798)': paper delivered at 'Bristol: Romantic City' conference, University of Bristol, September 1998.

1997

• 'Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Other Things': plenary lecture delivered at the Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, August 1997.

1996

• 'Explaining the Explanation: Coleridge and the Younger Romantics': the Annual Memorial Lecture of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association, Keats House, London, June 1996.
• 'Coleridge and the Turtle': invited paper given at the Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, August 1996.

1995

• '"History and Particular Facts Lost All Interest in my Mind": Coleridge Placed and Displaced': paper delivered at the British Association for Romantic Studies Conference, 'Placing and Displacing Romanticism', at the University of Wales, Bangor, July 1995.

1993

• 'Lamb and the Cost of Seriousness': lecture delivered to Charles Lamb Society, March 1993.

1992

• 'Auden and Romanticism': paper delivered at the Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, August 1992.

2006

• ‘Shelley’s Odes’: lecture delivered at the Wordsworth Winter School, Grasmere, February 2006.
• ‘Coleridge’s Sense of the Page’: talk given in the Bindman Collection series, Dove Cottage, Grasmere, July 2006.
• 'Romantic Visions': lecture delivered at the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education International Summer School, Exeter College, July 2004.

2005

• ‘Coleridge to William Wordsworth’: lecture delivered at the Wordsworth Winter School, Grasmere, February 2005.
• ‘Seeing Things in Romantic Ways’: lecture delivered at the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education International Summer School, Exeter College, July 2005.
• ‘Light’: sermon given on Wordsworth Sunday, St Oswald’s Church, Grasmere, July 2005.
• ‘Wordsworth and the Ancient Mariners’: talk given in the Bindman Collection series, Dove Cottage, Grasmere, July 2005.

2004

• ‘Coleridge’s Christmas, 1804’: lecture delivered at the Wordsworth Winter School, Grasmere, February 2003.
• ‘The Nature of Romanticism’: lecture delivered at the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education International Summer School, Exeter College, July 2004.

2003

• 'Relying too Much on Story': lecture delivered at the Wordsworth Winter School, Grasmere, February 2003.
• 'I never was more serious': Guest Speaker, The Birthday Luncheon of the Charles Lamb Society, London, February 2003.
• 'The Life of Coleridge': lecture given to the Stirling Literary Society, February 2003.
• ‘Blake’s Revolutions’: lecture delivered at the English Romanticism Day School, held by the Department for Continuing Education at Rewley House, University of Oxford, December 2003.

2002

• 'Mind has Mountains: Hopkins, Wordsworth, Coleridge': lecture delivered at the Wordsworth Winter School, Grasmere, February 2002.
• 'Coleridge Going Public': lecture to be delivered at 'Coleridge the Public Man', a study weekend organised by the Friends of Coleridge, Kilve, September 2002.

2001

• 'There was a Boy': lecture delivered at the Wordsworth Winter School, Grasmere, February 2001.
• 'William Blake: Revolutions in Poetry and Painting': lecture given to the Friends of the Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Stirling, February 2001.
• 'Auden and the Sense of an Ending': lecture delivered at the W.H. Auden Day School, held by the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, June 2001.

2000

• '"Thoughts so all unlike each other": Coleridge and the second part of "Christabel"': lecture delivered at the Wordsworth Winter School, Grasmere, February 2000.
• Invited participant, 'Philosophy and Politics in the Plays of Tom Stoppard', Tunbridge Wells: a symposium organised by the Liberty Fund, July 2000.
• 'Coleridge, Scotland, and Scottishness': lecture delivered at 'Coleridge Abroad', a study weekend organised by the Friends of Coleridge, Kilve, September 2000.

1999

• 'Coleridge in his Notebooks': lecture delivered at the Wordsworth Winter School, Grasmere, February 1999.

1998

• Interviewee, The English Programme:William Wordsworth. Broadcast, Channel 4, 26 January 1998.
• 'Besides The Prelude: the Ode': lecture delivered at the Wordsworth Winter School, Grasmere, February 1998.
• Chairman, 'Richard Holmes Reads Coleridge: Darker Reflections', Royal Over-Seas League, 21 October 1998.

1997

• 'Letter to Ode': lecture delivered at the Wordsworth Winter School, Grasmere, February 1997.
• 'Coleridge and the Women': lecture delivered at 'Coleridge and Women', a study weekend organised by the Friends of Coleridge, Kilve, September 1997.
• Invited participant, The Future of the Past: The Boston-Melbourne-Oxford Conversazione on Culture and Society, Lincoln College, Oxford, September 1997.
• 'The Imagination of their Hearts': Sermon for All Saints Day, Lincoln College, 3 November 1997.

1996

• 'Coleridge and the Two Part Prelude': lecture delivered at the Wordsworth Winter School, Grasmere, February 1996.

1995

• 'The Ancient Mariner Controversy': lecture delivered at the Wordsworth Winter School, Grasmere, February 1995.
• 'Attempts at Sublimity: Young Coleridge and The Ancient Mariner': lecture delivered at 'Coleridge and the Mariner', a study weekend organised by the Friends of Coleridge, Kilve, September 1995.